I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState. :-)

I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very …

If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, app…

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.